Kidnapping victim fearful despite arrests

Even with her alleged kidnappers in Lubbock County Jail, Sandra Sarratt is afraid for her life.

She said she knows they cannot harm her while they're in jail, but that she's afraid one of their friends or family members will come after her.

"I'm scared to answer the door," she said.

On Saturday, Sarratt's 54th birthday, a man with a black ski mask whom she has identified as Kelly Lemons approached her as she got out of her 1977 Porsche, she said.

"He pointed a gun at my head," she said. "He hit me in the head with the butt of the gun and knocked me to my knees."

Sarratt said she recognized the voice and started calling out his name, she said.

"He pistol whipped me 10 to 12 times and forced me into the car," she said.

When pushing Sarratt into the car, Lemons dropped his gun and bent down to get it, she said.

"I tried to shut the door and lock him out," she said. It didn't work. "He slugged me in the face then jumped into the car."

Then he took the mask off, she said.

Lemons drove Sarratt along the 3500 block of 42nd Street and pulled the car over, she said.

On the short drive, Sarratt said Lemons grabbed her head and tried to break her neck.

"He kept saying, 'I'll shoot you right here,' " she said. "Compared to where? Where do I have to go to get killed?"

The last thing she remembers him doing to her was covering her mouth and nose with his hand, she said.

"I prayed and passed out," she said. "When I came to, both doors were locked and I was sitting in the car (alone).

"I jumped out of the car and ran across the street into this woman's house," she said.

Just after she entered the woman's house, Sarratt said she looked out the window to see Lemons drive up in a truck and drop off another man, whom she identified as Roger Dale Ross, 21. Ross, she said, drove off in her car.

Sarratt received dozens of stitches when she was treated at Covenant Medical Center.

"They were sewing for a long time," she said.

Sarratt credits her life to the car she was driving.

"I usually drive a Lincoln with a trunk," she said. "If I had been driving the Lincoln, he would have shoved me into the trunk until he drove to where he wanted to go and shoot me."

Sarratt said her involvement with Lemons began in June when she hired him to do electrical work for her.

She accuses Lemons of stealing blank checks and forging them on her Plains National Bank account. About $8,000 was stolen from her account, she said.

Sarratt said Lemons also broke into several properties she owns.

"This is all about me not testifying against him," she said.

Lemons is being held on $100,000 bond on one charge of aggravated kidnapping, Detective Rey Martinez said Wednesday. He said Ross is being held on $25,000 bond on one charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.